XPost: sci.math   
   From: john@please.see.sig.for.email.com   
      
   In sci.math Jesse F. Hughes  wrote:   
   > JohnF  writes:   
   >> I'll absolutely accept any well-designed,   
   >> well-interpreted, with repeatable results (to, say, three standard   
   >> deviations), experiment. Go do it. But what you've got here is   
   >> people asserting what they think the results of such experiments   
   >> would reveal, without feeling the need to actually go do them.   
   >   
   > I guess I'm not sure which people you're referring to here.   
      
   Yeah, I kind of got turned around a little. I admitted not reading   
   the entire thread when I first posted. Above, I was referring to   
   out-of-body-is-real advocates without any evidence to back up their   
   belief, whereas I think you were referring to the "0% success"   
   experiments designed to refute the advocates. Or something like   
   that. Whatever. Sorry if I got on the wrong track there.   
      
   >>> But, on this, respectable folk can disagree.  And you were once   
   >>> respectable folk.  Back before you sullied Romero's good name.   
   >>   
   >> Not that I'm `dissing Romero, just that flick had a pretty   
   >> downbeat -- dare I say distasteful -- ending. For entertainment   
   >> purposes, I preferred the "valley girl conquers all" ending.   
   >> They even put that "driving off into the sunset" scene literally   
   >> into the ending. Who said zombies can't be funny?   
   >   
   > It was a perfect ending.  This isn't your stinkin' Hollywood "everything   
   > is beautiful" pablum, man.  This is (zombie) reality!   
   >   
   > And zombies can be funny.  Romero's zombies were funny, at times.   
   > Ripping the man's arm off and feasting on his mutilated body while he's   
   > having a blood pressure test?  Hilarious[1].  That's funny, man.   
   >   
   > And "Shaun of the Dead"?  Brilliant, despite the fast zombies heresy.   
   >   
   > And maybe your favorite movie is funny, too.  But it just don't compare   
   > -- *can't* compare -- to the master, dammit.   
   >   
   > Most historic site I've ever visited: the Monroeville Mall, in   
   > Monroeville, PA.  Site of Romero's brilliant Dawn of the Dead.  I got   
   > goosebumps every time I shopped there.   
   >   
   > Footnotes:   
   > [1]  I honestly wrote the word "gut-splittingly" and thought I'd never   
   > be forgiven.   
      
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